Earth Day and Eco Tuesday in San Francisco
Posted by jenndavis on May 1, 2008
Earth Day and Eco Tuesday came together last week (4/22) at the W Hotel. The Keynote speaker was Brian Gitt, the CEO of Build It Green (www.builditgreen.org), a non profit dedicated to promoting healthy, energy, and resource-efficient buildings in California.
Brian is a charismatic speaker and simply captivated the room of green enthusiasts. Brian is an example of starting with an idea of how to ‘green California buildings’ and running with it to become something larger than originally thought possible. What began as Build It Green’s ’voluntary guidelines’ for developers and architects building green real estate soon morphed into these same groups *clamoring* for more information. Today, he is beseiged with requests for his knowledge, training, guidance and personal presentations to educate this rapidly growing community. I think we’ve just scratched the surface. Thanks to people like Brian Gitt and organizations such as www.builditgreen.org we can really make some positive change in our communities.
